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Hints on Driving

Chapter 2: PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
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A practical handbook that explains the fundamentals and finer points of driving horses, focusing on correct harness fitting, single and pair handling, curricle and cape-cart techniques, four-in-hand management, and tandem driving. It offers step-by-step guidance on reins, whip use, starting, stopping, turning, and breaking to harness, with tips on practice exercises and items to carry. Emphasizing instruction for beginners, the manual stresses attentive handwork, clear illustrations, and simple methods to develop steady, coordinated teams and confident box-seat handling.

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

The favourable reception given by the press and the public to the first edition of “Hints on Driving,” which has run out in a little over three months, gives me hopes that a reprint of it will also be acceptable.

For this edition the sheets have been carefully revised throughout, and some additions have been made, many of which have been suggested to me during a short period of service in India. Several new illustrations have also been added.

General Albert Williams, who has kindly interested himself in this work, has given me permission to insert the following letter:

My dear Morley Knight,

“I have heard with pleasure that a second edition of your book on Driving is about to be published, and feel sure that it will be as well appreciated as the first has been. The book is full of valuable information most useful to beginners, and many professed coachmen might read it with advantage. The latter, like doctors, differ on many points, but I feel sure all good coachmen will be glad to know that your endeavours to instruct in the art of Driving have been so well received, and will welcome the new edition, the success of which I shall look forward to with confidence.

“Yours very truly,

Albert H. Williams.”

I have also to thank His Grace the Duke of Beaufort, K.G., for his kindly advice, and the numerous hints and corrections which I have endeavoured to incorporate in this volume.

C. M. K.

Nov., 1894.